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 Post subject: Embarrassing headline
PostPosted: Thu Jun 24, 2004 8:14 pm 
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"Pubic Park planned for Creekwood" ran in an edition of our paper today. I was off yesterday, so I had no part in it, but geez. <p>Just a reminder to all to be careful when using the word public in a headline. If that skinny little 'l' is missing, the hed just might make it onto Jay Leno's desk. LOL


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 Post subject: Re: Embarrassing headline
PostPosted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 12:53 am 
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I'm on vacation this week, but I found it annoying that "skittish" showed up in a big 40-point headline as "skiddish" on an inside "A" section page.<p>Gatekeeper<p>-30-


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 Post subject: Re: Embarrassing headline
PostPosted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 3:23 am 
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<blockquote><font size="1" face="TImes, TimesNR, serif">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Gatekeeper:
I'm on vacation this week, but I found it annoying that "skittish" showed up in a big 40-point headline as "skiddish" on an inside "A" section page.
<hr></blockquote><p>It could be worse. It could have been on purpose, as it was in the Dallas Morning News on Feb. 26., 2003:<p><font face="Arial" size="6">It's a bumper crop of skiddish drivers</font></p><p>[ June 25, 2004: Message edited by: blanp ]</p>


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 Post subject: Re: Embarrassing headline
PostPosted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 9:20 am 
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<blockquote><font size="1" face="TImes, TimesNR, serif">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Jamal:
"Pubic Park planned for Creekwood" ran in an edition of our paper today. I was off yesterday, so I had no part in it, but geez. <p>Just a reminder to all to be careful when using the word public in a headline. If that skinny little 'l' is missing, the hed just might make it onto Jay Leno's desk. LOL<hr></blockquote>The best way I've found to combat this is to run a search for pubic in any story that has the word public. Has saved us on more than one occasion.


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 Post subject: Re: Embarrassing headline
PostPosted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 4:14 pm 
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<blockquote><font size="1" face="TImes, TimesNR, serif">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by blanp:
<p>It could be worse. It could have been on purpose, as it was in the Dallas Morning News on Feb. 26., 2003:<p><font face="Arial" size="6">It's a bumper crop of skiddish drivers</font><p>[ June 25, 2004: Message edited by: blanp ]<hr></blockquote><p>**cringes**<p>Gatekeeper<p>-30-


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 Post subject: Re: Embarrassing headline
PostPosted: Sat Jun 26, 2004 3:35 am 
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<blockquote><font size="1" face="TImes, TimesNR, serif">quote:</font><hr>The best way I've found to combat this is to run a search for pubic in any story that has the word public. Has saved us on more than one occasion.<hr></blockquote><p>Another good trick: Have "pubic" taken out of the system's spell-check dictionary. It appears rarely enough in stories that there's no real inconvenience in having it pop up as a misspelling when it isn't.


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